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From: Brad Hendrickse <bradh@iafrica.com>
To: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>
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Subject: Re: PPP
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> >  Hi, does anyone know if it's possible to set either 'ppp' or 'pppd' up
> > for manual or operator assisted dial? I need to establish a connection
> > across an analogue leased line which requires the above.
> 
> Do you mean using:
>  
>  set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\"
>  AT&FM0 OK-AT-OK \\dATDP\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
>                     ^^^^
> for pulse dial as opposed to ATDT for tone dial.
> Check your modem owners manual.

 No, it's going to be a dead line (no dial tone at all). Basically, I need
to fool the modem into thinking I'm going to be dialing for it (Linux and
Win95 can do it, surely FreeBSD can ;)) Does 'ppp' or 'pppd' support that?

TIA


--brad                                                    I'm a FreeBSD user--

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